Brett Sherman
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[Bruce Wittman] “Any way to make the default audio setting be “dual mono” instead of “stereo”?”
I do the workaround all the time. But there really should be a preference item for it so you don’t have to waste time changing them. If you have an event with a lot of clips it actually takes awhile.
The preference should allow different settings for clips from camera, imported clips, and clips from iTunes.
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[Shawn Miller] ”
There are a few more players to consider, I think. Boxx, Promax and SuperMicro”Boxx and Promax require others to manufacture motherboards. So if those companies find it unprofitable to make motherboards then they are SOL. SuperMicro makes motherboards but they require Intel to make the chipsets.
Now I don’t expect the industry to change that much in the next 5 years. After that I don’t know. The point is that that one company cannot control what happens in the entire industry.
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Our organization is trying to get off Brightcove. It’s just too expensive. We had to go up to the professional level which is over $1000/month. They cripple their lower priced version. But there were a couple features we needed for the pro level. We’re not even close to the needing the bandwidth for the pro version.
We’ll be moving either to completely YouTube or a mix of YouTube and Vimeo.
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Shooting with a C300, lighting has a slightly different role than it had in the past. I never use lights for anything except lighting podiums and interviews. For interviews I use lights to soften wrinkles, deal with excessive contrast with the background, or unflattering existing light (ceiling mounted flourescents). I use lights a lot less and am more confident when I don’t have the time to set one up.
The lighting gear I use is different now and focused on speed of setup. Basically I use a battery powered softboxed LED for key. Every once in awhile if I have time I’ll use an LED backlight. But I’m finding I like the “hyped” look of that less and less. Like everything else, lighting style is constantly evolving. I look at stuff shot in the 90s or 00s that is tightly controlled with lots of backlight and think “ick.”
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I have that particular model of Mac Pro (1,1). One reason for the low price is the fact that you can not run Mountain Lion on this Mac. So it’s basically locked in at Lion OS for perpetuity. However if you had a 3,1 Mac Pro I think you’d find you could get more money for it.
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[Oliver Peters] “t also ignores the fact that Apple could simply decide to not introduce something if the business climate has changed and no longer warrants it.”
That would be true of any vendor. PC side included. Yes there will always be servers, but will the needs of the server market and the pro workstation market diverge? After all servers don’t need sophisticated graphics cards. And blade servers will likely replace the big box servers. Predicting the future is always dicey whether you are doing it with Macs or PCs.
The bottom line is that processing power and buss bandwidth are going to continue to increase. So I don’t know why people assume I’m banking on Apple doing anything. What I’m sure of is there will be an Apple solution that I can work with. Heck, I just ordered a 27″ iMac that will work fine for me. Next year if there is a Mac Pro that works for me I’ll buy that.
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[Chris Harlan] “disregard all other evidence to the contrary.”
When the alternative argument that Apple will definitely drop the Mac Pro is based on the fact that Apple makes too much money on other products, I’m not sure my hopes look all that delusional.
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[Dennis Radeke] “$1M a year isn’t big enough for a multi-billion dollar a year company to get involved with. Extrapolate for a company the size of Apple…”
So Apple’s sucess is actually a detriment? Brilliant. Allow me to be skeptical with someone who has a vested interest in Apple abandoning the pro market with no inside information.
I just don’t see it this way. To me Apple’s success means they don’t have to worry about losing a small bit of money on the Mac Pro market.
There is a hardware ecosystem to support software. Besides the fact that Tim Cook has said they are not abandoning the pro market. I think Apple’s smart enough to know if there isn’t pro level hardware, their software will not achieve pro level status. This is true of Logic as well as FCP X. So while it may not be a huge profit maker if at all, it is a market that Apple has to support if they want to their software to be seen as professional. Not to mention they would probably prefer users of Adobe products to stay on the Mac so they could at least buy FCP X even if they don’t end up using it regularly.
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No, it’s the original codec – XDCAM in this case.
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However, if the application isn’t as snappy as editing with local files, these facilities aren’t going to use it either. We’re talking milliseconds here. The engineering hurdles are going to be enormous. Also, I wouldn’t count on Apple not having something similar eventually.